Brussels, 21/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission's latest state aid scoreboard, published on Wednesday 21 May, shows that spending by member states on the environment has risen significantly over the last seven years. The Commission welcomes this trend, due partly to a rise in reductions or exemptions from environmental taxes, as wanted by the new guidelines adopted in January of this year (see EUROPE 9686).
Over the period of validity of the previous environmental aid...